Fishing Boat Sinks Off Sattahip - 9 Missing

There was drama at sea on Wednesday Night as a team of Royal Thai Navy Sea Rescuers were called out to the waters off Samaer San Beach in Sattahip after receiving information of a fishing boat which had not returned to Port since it left on 14th October. The last known position of the boat was given to the rescuers who went to the location and found the partially submerged vessel. However a search for the 9 fishermen who were known to be onboard was unsuccessful. It is feared that they drowned and were taken away by local currents. [via Pattaya City News]

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• Insomnia Gentleman's Club, Soi Diamond, opens tonight

• The Meteorological Department Thursday predicts that the temperature will continue to drop nationwide due to the high pressure mass over the upper part of Thailand. The lowest temperature in the North will be 18 Celsius degree Thursday, compared with 19 degree in the Northeast, 23 degree in the Central, 23 degree in the South and 24 degree in Bangkok.

• Second Walking Street - Khun Wootisuk, Deputy Mayor of Pattaya chaired a Thursday Morning meeting at Pattaya City Hall to discuss plans for a second Walking Street in the Pattaya Area. Walking Street Old Town will be situated in Naklua and the idea for this new pedestrian only shopping area was given to City Hall by the Pattaya Smile Club which is an association of local Thai business people. The street which will cost 1.4 Million Baht to construct and will consist of 80 shops selling locally produced items has been approved by City Hall who will fund the project which will begin with a 4 week test period beginning in November. [via Pattaya City News]

  

• I mentioned in last Sunday's post (Oct 14) that Gemma Atkinson had been to Pattaya to shoot her 2008 calendar. Well the good people at DailyPOA have posted previews of the calendar online, for your edification !

• Meebo has just launched a new Firefox extension so that you can instant message right from the sidebar of your browser. While this makes it convenient to have access to your favorite IM clients like AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, ICQ, and Jabber, there are a few things that could be improved to make this extension even better. Seeing as this is their first extension though, I think you’ll be impressed with what it offers.

  Once you install the extension (download here), you’ll be able to select which chat client you’d like

  

  to sign into. Once you sign-in, a new Meebo tab will automatically open in your browser. This is where all of your chat windows will be. When I mentioned that Meebo could certainly improve on a few things, this is one of them. It would be nice if you could keep the chat window open in the sidebar, or maybe even have your conversations tabbed right along with your other opened tabs in the browser instead of having all your conversations opened in the one Meebo tab. The current setup is almost like just going to their site to chat, but you have the convenience of being able to view all of your contacts in the sidebar which is always open.

Using the Meebo extension, you can chat with a group of people, send a file, view chat logs, and view a user’s profile. There’s also an automatic sign-on feature that will sign you in when you open the browser. Meebo alerts will let you know when you have a new message if you’re viewing another tab. If you’re on a different tab and you receive a message, the tab will flash, but you’ll also see a red bubble next to the persons name in the sidebar displaying how many new messages you have from them. Overall it’s a really great extension, and a nice addition from Meebo to make chatting easy no matter where you are. [via Cybernet]

• Terry Wogan's wardrobe malfunction sparks BBC complaints [via Daily Mail]

• All Black's after match 7hr sex romp

• According to The Wall Street Journal, Botox hit a billion dollars in sales last year. A billion dollars! Of course, the Botox people are thrilled. You couldn’t tell by looking at their faces, but they were. [via Jay Leno]

• President Bush met with the Dalai Lama today . . . another embarrassing moment. Bush said, “Where’s the Llama?” [via Jay Leno]

• Big day in Washington. Today President Bush had a historic meeting with the Dalai Lama. There was an awkward moment when Bush saw what the Dalai Lama was wearing and said, “Don’t tell me they lost your luggage.” [via Conan O'Brien]

• Mayor Bloomberger is planting 1 million trees in new York City. One million trees — $3 billion contract with Halliburton.

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